1When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,2the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.3The Lord said to him: ‘I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there for ever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.4‘As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,5I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father when I said, “You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.”6‘But if you[1] or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[2] and go off to serve other gods and worship them,7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.8This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[3] who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, “Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?”9People will answer, “Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them – that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.” ’
Solomon’s other activities
10At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings – the temple of the Lord and the royal palace –11King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.12But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.13‘What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?’ he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,[4] a name they have to this day.14Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[5] of gold.15Here is the account of the forced labour King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,[6] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.17And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,18Baalath, and Tadmor[7] in the desert, within his land,19as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses[8] – whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.20There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).21Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land – whom the Israelites could not exterminate[9] – to serve as slave labour, as it is to this day.22But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.23They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects – 550 officials supervising those who did the work.24After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.25Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.26King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[10]27And Hiram sent his men – sailors who knew the sea – to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.28They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents[11] of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
1 Kings 9
King James Version
1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king' house, and all Solomon' desire which he was pleased to do,2That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.3And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.4And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:5Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.6But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king' house,11( Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.13And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon' wife.17And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,18And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,19And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.20And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.23These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon' work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.24But Pharaoh' daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1Und es geschah, als Salomo den Bau des Hauses des HERRN und des Hauses des Königs vollendet hatte, dazu alles, was Salomo gefiel, ⟨alles,⟩ was er auszuführen wünschte, (1Ki 3:1; 1Ki 6:37; 1Ki 9:10; 2Ch 8:1)2da erschien der HERR dem Salomo zum zweiten Mal, wie er ihm in Gibeon erschienen war. (1Ki 3:5)3Und der HERR sprach zu ihm: Ich habe dein Gebet und dein Flehen gehört, das du vor mir gefleht hast. Ich habe dieses Haus, das du gebaut hast, geheiligt, um meinen Namen dort niederzulegen für ewig; und meine Augen und mein Herz sollen allezeit dort ⟨gegenwärtig⟩ sein. (Ex 29:44; De 11:12; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ki 20:5; Ps 65:3; Ps 66:19; Ps 116:1; Ps 132:14; Jer 7:10; Joh 4:20; Ac 10:31)4Und du, wenn du vor mir lebst, ebenso wie dein Vater David gelebt hat[1] in Lauterkeit des Herzens und in Aufrichtigkeit, indem du nach allem handelst, was ich dir geboten habe, und ⟨wenn⟩ du meine Ordnungen und meine Rechtsbestimmungen einhältst, (2Sa 22:22; 1Ki 3:3; 2Ch 17:4; Eze 18:9)5dann werde ich den Thron deines Königtums über Israel festigen für ewig, so wie ich über deinen Vater David geredet habe, als ich sprach: Es soll dir nicht an einem Mann auf dem Thron Israels fehlen[2]. (1Ki 2:4)6Wenn ihr euch aber von mir abwendet[3], ihr und eure Kinder, und meine Gebote ⟨und⟩ meine Ordnungen, die ich euch vorgelegt habe, nicht einhaltet, sondern hingeht und anderen Göttern dient und euch vor ihnen niederwerft, (1Ki 11:10; Ps 89:31)7dann werde ich Israel ausrotten aus dem Land[4], das ich ihnen gegeben habe; und das Haus, das ich meinem Namen geheiligt habe, werde ich von meinem Angesicht wegstoßen. So wird Israel zum Sprichwort und zur Spottrede unter allen Völkern werden. (De 28:37; Jos 23:16; 2Ki 17:23; 2Ki 25:9; Ps 44:15; Jer 7:12; La 1:8; La 2:17; Eze 5:15; Eze 24:21; Ho 9:3; Mt 23:38)8Und dieses Haus wird eine Trümmerstätte werden[5]; jeder, der an ihm vorübergeht, wird sich entsetzen und pfeifen. Und man wird sagen: Warum hat der HERR an diesem Land und an diesem Haus so gehandelt? (De 29:23; 2Ki 22:17; 2Ch 29:8; Jer 22:8; La 2:15)9Dann wird man sagen: Weil sie den HERRN, ihren Gott, der ihre Väter aus dem Land Ägypten herausgeführt hat, verlassen und sich an andere Götter gehalten haben und sich vor ihnen niedergeworfen und ihnen gedient haben, darum hat der HERR all dieses Unheil über sie gebracht. (De 29:23; 2Ki 22:17; 2Ch 8:1; 2Ch 29:8; Jer 22:8; La 2:15)
Salomos Gabe an Hiram – Salomos Zwangsarbeiter, Festungsbauten, Vorratsstädte und Schifffahrt
10Und es geschah am Ende der zwanzig Jahre, in denen Salomo die beiden Häuser, das Haus des HERRN und das Haus des Königs, gebaut hatte – (1Ki 7:1; 1Ki 9:1; Ezr 5:11)11Hiram, der König von Tyrus, hatte Salomo unterstützt mit Zedernholz, mit Wacholderholz und mit Gold ganz nach seinem Wunsch –, damals gab der König Salomo dem Hiram zwanzig Städte im Land Galiläa. (1Ki 5:22)12Und Hiram zog von Tyrus aus, um ⟨sich⟩ die Städte anzusehen, die Salomo ihm gegeben hatte; und sie waren nicht recht in seinen Augen.13Und er sagte: Was sind das für Städte, die du mir gegeben hast, mein Bruder! Und er nannte sie »Land Kabul[6]«⟨, und so heißen sie⟩ bis zum heutigen Tag.14Hiram hatte nämlich dem König 120 Talente Gold gesandt.15Und dies ist die Sache ⟨mit⟩ den Zwangsarbeitern, die der König Salomo aushob, um das Haus des HERRN zu bauen sowie sein ⟨eigenes⟩ Haus und den Millo[7] und die Mauer von Jerusalem und Hazor und Megiddo und Geser – (Jos 11:1; Jos 16:10; 2Sa 5:9; 1Ki 3:1; 1Ki 5:27; 1Ki 11:27)16der Pharao, der König von Ägypten, war heraufgezogen und hatte Geser eingenommen und es mit Feuer verbrannt und die Kanaaniter, die in der Stadt wohnten[8], erschlagen und hatte es seiner Tochter, der Frau des Salomo, als Mitgift gegeben! (Jos 16:10; 1Ki 3:1)17Und Salomo baute Geser und das untere Bet-Horon (Jos 16:3)18und Baalat und Tamar[9] in der Wüste im Land ⟨Juda⟩ (Jos 19:44; Eze 47:19)19und alle Vorratsstädte, die Salomo hatte, und die Wagenstädte und die Pferdestädte und ⟨alles,⟩ was Salomo sonst noch zu bauen wünschte[10] in Jerusalem und auf dem Libanon und im ganzen Land seiner Herrschaft –: (1Ki 5:6)20alles Volk, das übrig geblieben war von den Amoritern, den Hetitern, den Perisitern, den Hewitern und den Jebusitern, die nicht von den Söhnen Israel waren, (Jud 3:3)21deren Söhne, die nach ihnen im Land übrig geblieben waren, weil die Söhne Israel an ihnen den Bann nicht hatten vollstrecken können, die hob Salomo als Sklaven zur Zwangsarbeit ⟨für seine Bauten⟩ aus; ⟨und so ist es⟩ bis zum heutigen Tag. (Jos 16:10; Jud 1:27)22Aber von den Söhnen Israel machte Salomo keine Sklaven, sondern sie waren Kriegsleute und seine Knechte und seine Obersten und seine Wagenkämpfer[11] und Oberste über seine Streitwagen und seine Pferde. (Le 25:39)23Dies sind die Obersten der Vögte, die über die Bauarbeiten[12] Salomos ⟨gesetzt⟩ waren: 550, die über das Volk herrschten, das mit der Arbeit beschäftigt war.24Sobald die Tochter des Pharao aus der Stadt Davids in ihr Haus hinaufgezogen war, das er für sie erbaut hatte, da baute er den Millo[13]. (2Sa 5:9; 1Ki 7:8; 1Ki 11:27)25Und Salomo opferte dreimal im Jahr Brandopfer und Heilsopfer[14] auf dem Altar, den er für den HERRN gebaut hatte, und brachte Rauchopfer auf ihm dar, der vor dem HERRN ⟨stand⟩. Und er vollendete das Haus[15]. (Ex 23:14; 1Ki 6:9)26Und der König Salomo baute eine Flotte in Ezjon-Geber, das bei Elat am Ufer des Schilfmeeres im Land Edom ⟨liegt⟩. (Nu 33:35; 1Ki 22:49; 2Ki 14:22)27Und Hiram schickte auf der Flotte seine Knechte ⟨mit⟩, seekundige Schiffsleute⟨, die⟩ mit den Knechten Salomos ⟨fuhren⟩. (1Ki 10:11)28Und sie gelangten nach Ofir und holten von dort Gold, 420 Talente, und brachten ⟨es⟩ zum König Salomo. (Ge 10:29; 1Ki 10:14; 1Ki 22:49; 1Ch 29:4; 2Ch 9:1; Job 22:24; Ps 45:10; Ec 2:8)